In this lesson from readwritethink.org, students learn about the differences between fiction and nonfiction text with animals as the main focus.

This article highlights children's literature about light, heat, and energy sources for use in the elementary classroom.

This article provides links to hands-on science activities that could be used in an festival or informal learning event. National standards correlations are provided.

This article highlights children's literature about fossils, dinosaurs, archaeology, and paleontology for use in the elementary classroom.

In an interview, a zookeeper at the Columbus, Ohio, polar bear exhibit describes time she spent at Churchill, Manitoba, educating tourists about polar bears and what can be done to help populations in the wild. This interview appeared in the free, online magazine Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears.

This article features activity books and polar-themed children's literature for use in the elementary classroom.

This article features children's literature about oceans - specifically the Arctic and Southern Oceans.

This article highlights children's literature about day and night, seasons, the aurora, and cause and effect for use in the elementary classroom.

Place and Location are two of the five themes of geography and a natural starting point for a study of the Arctic and Antarctica. Location answers the question, "Where am I?" while the study of place asks, "What kind of a place is it?" and, "How does this place connect to my hometown?" This issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears examines how you can introduce the Arctic and Antarctica and use science, geography, literacy, and technology to help your students compare and contrast these two dramatically different areas as well as their own home. Get ready for an adventure as you and your students develop your polar sense of place!

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is an online professional development magazine for elementary teachers which focuses on preparing teachers to teach polar science concepts in an already congested curriculum by integrating inquiry-based science with literacy teaching. Such an integrated approach can increase students' science knowledge, academic language, reading comprehension, and written and oral discourse abilities.

This article provides a list of children's literature relating to the geography and characteristics of the Arctic and Antarctica.

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original video about Polar Bears, and then open the PDF resource below to learn about their conservation and become a Species Survival Coordinator for these vulnerable bears!

This article provides ideas and lessons on how elementary teachers can integrate webcams from the Arctic and Antarctica into their teaching. Five webcams are highlighted as well as three lessons on writing poetry and observing animal behavior.

This article highlights children's literature about states of matter, phase changes, the water cycle, and glaciers and icebergs for use in the elementary classroom.

This article highlights children's literature about weather and climate, the polar regions, and climate change for use in the elementary classroom.

Take a brrrreak with the Zoo EDventures team and dive into the world of the polar bear. We can bearly wait to join you for this taped episode!

We have created some helpful clips if you are unable to watch the full video:
3.L.1 Polar Bear Skull (4 min): https://youtu.be/VmJYNFTty3o?t=1926
4.L.1 Polar Bear Fur (3 min): https://youtu.be/VmJYNFTty3o?t=2165

Join Cynthia as she explains how colors can effect heat absorption and reflection for animals, us, and the planet. Then take it a step further with this at home science experiment.

We have created helpful clips if you're unable to watch the full video:
4.L.1 Polar Bear Skin and Fur (1 min 50 sec): https://youtu.be/m8CFTVlLTkk?t=184
6.P.3 Dark colors absorb heat, light colors reflect heat (1.5 min): https://youtu.be/m8CFTVlLTkk?t=95